Have you ever considered that the SD card itself is bad or inserted improperly? Try a diff sd card and make sure the notch is away from you, closer to the back of the computer. It's perfectly normal for just the hard drive to be listed under Drives without the sd reader when there is no card inserted. My I6000 has no Ricoh drivers for the reader or anything else. All drivers for I6000 listed here:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/devices.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&SystemID=INS_PNT_6000&os=WW1&osl=EN
When the SD card isn't inside they have the SD Standard Compliant SD Host controller (he working properly) and when I insert my SD card they have a secure digital storage device added in the disk drives and they have the exclaimation marks on it. That said ''This device cannot start. (Code 10)'' and again they don't have problem whit the whit the SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controlle
I called the dell technical support, and he said that probaly because after I formated my computer I didn't install th ''Dell notebook system software'' so I formated my computer again and install the ''Dell notebook system software'' in first and the'' Intel mobile chipset '' in second but I have the same problem
P.S. sorry I'am a francophone and I hope what I said make sens.......................I try !!
Bacillus, it DOES look like that, but if you expand "Disk Drives" when an SD card is in, the rest of us see an additional drive "Secure Digital Storage Device" with an exclamation point. Couble-clicking the device yields this message:
[This device cannot start. (Code 10)
Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device.]
"Troubleshoot" does nothing. I mean, it doesn't even blink.
I tried disabling that and hoping the SD Host Controller would "take control" but nothin' doin'...
HAS ANYONE GOTTEN TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS? (other than by buying a Mac...)
My husband and I are having the same problem on BOTH our I6000's. I would love for this to actually work but it seems with so many problems it is a Dell issue and they aren't trying to fix it so it seems.
Hey, I just found this on Microsoft's support site. Take a gander... I just sent a request for further info and will update if I get anything useful (and perhaps if not, too...)
That is exactly what I've been seeing. My Kingston SD/512 card does the same thing. I went into services and turne all the SD Card related services on. Still no help. Went to the Microsoft website and this link says they have a patch. Unfortunately, after contacting the support section, they said the patch only works for XP and 2000. I have XP SP1 MCE. They would not give me that. anyone else want to try?
Here's the link:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921413
bacillus
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you SD card reader does not require any drivers apart from the one included in xp sp2 in order to work.
this leads me to the question on where you got your ricoh drivers from and what do you see in device manager?
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could you tell us what you see in device manager?
ideally it should look like this without any exclaimation marks
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Here's the link:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921413